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The best advice I ever got was from a board member of a startup I was involved in some years ago. He was a member of the European parlaiment, had started two mu
by mixmax 19y ago
The best advice I ever got was from a board member of a startup I was involved in some years ago. He was a member of the European parlaiment, had started two multi million dollar companies, and generally a guy that you would want to listen to. His advice came at a very early stage of our startup and was very simple: Make a prototype that looks great, nobody will care how the hell it works but it has to look good.
- Alex3917 19y agoThe most important thing I learned in my business classes sophomore year of college was to make the investor visualize your product no matter what you're pitching. So if you want 100k to buy a kiosk in your local mall, make a 3D rendering of what the kiosk is going to look like. And if you are pitching a new kind of bacon to a group of VCs, make damn sure your cofounder is cooking it in the back of the room and everyone there can smell it. Getting a picture into the other person's head is 90% of getting the money at the seed stage.
- greendestiny 19y agoBeautiful design is inspiring to developers as well. I've worked on stuff on my own, but working with an artist makes me work many times harder.
- melvinram 19y agoSolid advice! My first business mentor said it a little differently: "Perception is everything until they buy!"